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enGrijalva’s Save Oak Flat Bill Boosted by Historic Preservation Listinghttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/20/grijalvas-save-oak-flat-bill-boosted-historic-preservation-listing-161136
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Legislation to save an Apache sacred site from destruction by an international mining company got a helping hand recently when the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the land on its 2015 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic</p></div></div></div>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:45:00 +0000theresa161136 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/07/20/grijalvas-save-oak-flat-bill-boosted-historic-preservation-listing-161136#commentsWe Want to Talk: Resolution Copper Breaks Silence Over Land Swaphttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/06/17/we-want-talk-resolution-copper-breaks-silence-over-land-swap-160750
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Amid protests and allegations of corruption surrounding a recent land swap that made sacred Apache land vulnerable to copper mining, the company in question has been mum.</p>
<p>But recently an executive with Resolution Copper, which managed to secure 2,400 acres of sacred Apache land under which lie ore deposits, sat down with Indian Country Today Media Network. He said that far from being aloof, the company has been rebuffed in its attempts to connect with the San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona.</p>
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<p>“I think the public’s understanding is that no dialogue has taken place, and that’s not the case,” said Resolution Copper Project Director Andrew Taplin in an exclusive interview. “I have written and personally spoken with current San Carlos Chairman Terry Rambler and former Chairman Wendsler Nosie Sr., encouraging dialogue. A number of opportunities have been offered up, including the most recent, when the chief executive of our parent company visited Arizona and extended an invitation for Chairman Rambler and he to meet, and that invitation was not responded to.”</p>
<p>Some discussions are taking place with other neighboring tribes and non-Natives, as well as “some members of the San Carlos Apache tribe who understand the benefits associated with the project,” said Taplin. “We held an open forum on the reservation a few weeks ago with 50 tribal members engaging in healthy dialogue for over three hours.”</p>
<p>Another session is planned in the next few weeks, he said. Meanwhile, the company is safeguarding Apache Leap and the Oak Flat campground, where protesters have been staying since the land-swap rider, attached to the National Defense Authorization Act, was passed in February.</p>
<p>“We listened very carefully to the concerns of the San Carlos Apache tribe prior to the passage of the land exchange bill and addressed those concerns to the fullest extent possible,” said Taplin. “Ongoing access to the campground will continue as long as it is safe to do so, and we expect access will continue for a number of decades. Another concern was for adequate protection of Apache Leap, so 800 acres have been put into permanent protection status, and we’ve foregone any of our mineral rights in that area.”</p>
<p>He said the company continues to welcome any and all discussion.</p>
<p>“Despite the fact that we have not been able to have a rich engagement of dialogue, we listened very carefully to Chairman Rambler’s Washington testimony to ensure the concerns of the tribe are being addressed,” Taplin said.</p>
<p>RELATED: <a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181" target="_self">San Carlos Apache Leader Seeks Senate Defeat of Copper Mine on Sacred Land</a></p>
<p><a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/27/san-carlos-apache-leader-what-was-struggle-protect-our-most-sacred-site-now-battle-158878" target="_self">San Carlos Apache Leader: ‘What Was a Struggle to Protect Our Most Sacred Site Is Now a Battle’</a></p>
<p>Taplin actually did not see the two sides as opposed—it could work out in both parties’ favor, he said.</p>
<p>“This is often framed as ‘it’s either one or the other,’ but my view is with some constructive dialogue and understanding of the issues getting talked through, we could actually have both,” he said, referring to preservation of the holy lands even in the face of a mine. “This can be a wonderful project of benefit to many, done in a manner respectful of tribes that have traditionally used that land. I believe you can have respect for development of a project like this one and still have careful consideration of the religious and cultural concerns the San Carlos Apache tribe has.”</p>
<p></div></div></div>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:30:00 +0000theresa160750 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/06/17/we-want-talk-resolution-copper-breaks-silence-over-land-swap-160750#commentsTake Oak Flat to a Higher Court: Why US & Canada Fear Human Rights Courtshttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/06/01/take-oak-flat-higher-court-why-us-canada-fear-human-rights-courts-160561
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Hundreds of Apaches are occupying Oak Flat, a sacred site to Apache people since long before the state of Arizona, where Oak Flat lies, existed. The occupation is an effort to prevent the destruction of Oak Flat by an Australian transnational mining corporation that got the rights to it in a shady deal engineered by the two U.S. Senators and a Congressman from Arizona. The Apaches, courting arrest, <a href="http://www.apache-stronghold.com" target="_blank">have asked</a> for people of faith to back them up. At a protest rally in February, individuals from at least five other tribes appeared to back up the San Carlos Apaches. <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html?_r=0" target="_blank">published an op-ed backing them up</a>, calling the Oak Flat deal “sneakily anti-democratic even by congressional standards.”</p>
<p>RELATED: <a href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/09/hundreds-gather-oak-flat-fight-sacred-apache-land-159119" target="_self">Hundreds Gather at Oak Flat to Fight for Sacred Apache Land</a></p>
<p>Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake and Rep. Paul Gosar, all Republicans, engineered the gifting of Oak Flat to Rio Tinto with an amendment to a “must pass” defense bill at the last moment, when there could be no debate. The imminent destruction of Oak Flat is a product of the colonial government, so there’s little chance that government’s legal system will back up the Apaches.</p>
<p>What if international law would back them up? What if they could appeal to a higher court?</p>
<p>The American Convention on Human Rights aspired to establish “a system of personal liberty and social justice based on respect for the essential rights of man.” This multilateral treaty was opened for signature in 1969 under the auspices of the Organization of American States. The OAS was established in 1948 with the United States and 20 other states as charter members. Canada finally joined in 1990, and the OAS headquarters is in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>Article 20 of the American Convention on Human Rights protects freedom of conscience and religion, a freedom that the Apaches cannot enjoy with their sacred sites destroyed. Article 23 protects the right to participate in the colonial governments, a right denied in the underhanded way the gift to Rio Tinto was accomplished. Article 25 promises “judicial protection” against acts that “violate the fundamental rights recognized... by this Convention, even though such violation may have been committed by persons acting in the course of their official duties.”</p>
<p>More important than these fine abstractions, the Convention created the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights as enforcement organs. Since the Inter-American Court began hearing cases in 1979, it has rendered a stunning series of decisions protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and recognizing the collective nature of those rights. If the Apaches courting arrest right now were able to apply to the Inter-American Court for help, the case would be decided by judges from other nations, lending the decision a credibility U.S. courts can never have.</p>
<p>RELATED: <a href="https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/26/south-does-rights-thing-why-us-canada-fear-human-rights-court-part-ii-160484" target="_self">The South Does Rights Thing; Why US &amp; Canada Fear Human Rights Court, Part II</a></p>
<p>The series of reports of which this is the last attempts to answer why the San Carlos Apaches cannot appeal to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights for protection, just as the First Nations of Canada cannot challenge Canada’s policy to promote mining of bitumen—”tar sands”—in ways that threaten traditional lifeways.</p>
<p>At the time the American Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in 1969, the Cold War was raging worldwide and was felt most acutely in this hemisphere in the diplomatic estrangement between the U.S. and Cuba that is finally on the path to resolution this year. The U.S. was fighting a hot war in Vietnam against a national liberation movement. Cuba involved itself in the wars of national liberation in the Portuguese colonies of Africa and made mighty efforts to stir up the same conflicts in Latin America.</p>
<p>Looking back, it is amazing that such a comprehensive human rights document came out of times when human rights were, at best, a secondary consideration of the great powers. Foreign policies on both sides of the Cold War were driven by “my enemy’s enemy is my friend.” The U.S. found itself shipping arms to odious Latin American governments who used the weapons on their own people, often their indigenous people.</p>
<p>Opponents of the many Latin American dictatorships were not ignorant of the unfortunate history the U.S. has with its Indigenous Peoples and with slavery, but even more African slaves were imported to South America than to the U.S. Combine that importation with the color prejudice of the Spanish and Portuguese and the result is racial caste systems still common in the Americas. Color prejudice was and is a major human rights issue.</p>
<p>The American Convention attempts to leap a legal hurdle that obstructs treaty enforcement in the U.S. and some other nations, the idea that a treaty is not “self-executing” and therefore confers no rights by itself. Article 2 of the American Convention creates a duty to execute the treaty by passing whatever laws are necessary to make the rights declared legally enforceable:</p>
<p><strong><em>Article 2. Domestic Legal Effects</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Where the exercise of any of the rights or freedoms referred to in Article 1 is not already ensured by legislative or other provisions, the States Parties undertake to adopt, in accordance with their constitutional processes and the provisions of this Convention, such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to those rights or freedoms.</em></p>
<p>In addition to the civil rights to life, liberty, property and the more procedural rights legal scholars understand as “civil liberties,” the Convention goes a bit further and defines, for example:</p>
<p>— a right to legal personhood, which U.S. law has recently extended to corporations but not all Latin American countries have extended to Indigenous Peoples within their borders;</p>
<p>— a right to humane treatment, even when accused of crime;</p>
<p>— a right to compensation if wrongfully punished for a crime;</p>
<p>— a right of reply to “inaccurate or offensive statements or ideas disseminated to the public…by a legally regulated medium;”</p>
<p>— a right to a nationality, which was denied to Indigenous Peoples in the U.S. until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and is still denied in some nations;</p>
<p>— a right to freedom of movement;</p>
<p>— a right to participate in the colonial government;</p>
<p>After a recitation of human rights far more expansive than the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Convention goes on to create the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to enforce the treaty.</p>
<p></div></div></div>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:00:00 +0000kpolisse160561 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/06/01/take-oak-flat-higher-court-why-us-canada-fear-human-rights-courts-160561#commentsFight Continues to Wrest Control of Sacred Site Back From Copper Mining Co.http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/21/fight-continues-wrest-control-sacred-site-back-copper-mining-co-160439
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>This one appears headed for a 12-round title bout as the San Carlos Apache tribe continues its battle with Resolution Copper Co. over the issue of sacred land at Oak Flats.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 21 May 2015 16:00:00 +0000theresa160439 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/21/fight-continues-wrest-control-sacred-site-back-copper-mining-co-160439#commentsSan Carlos Apache Battle Against ‘Christian Discovery’http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/20/san-carlos-apache-battle-against-christian-discovery
<fieldset class="field-group-fieldset group-opinions-body form-wrapper" id="node_opinion_rss_group_opinions_body"><legend><span class="fieldset-legend">Body</span></legend><div class="fieldset-wrapper"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The San Carlos Apache battle cry, sounded by San Carlos Apache Chairman Terry Rambler to prevent the hostile takeover over of Apache lands by the United States and Rio Tinto mining corporation, goes to the core of U.S. neo-colonialism against Native nations.</span></p>
<p>The current attack on Apache lands arises from a law recently passed by the U.S. Congress, the "Southeast Arizona land exchange and conservation Act." The title of the act conceals its true purpose. The law has nothing to do with conservation. It enables the mining company to begin digging, with the environmental hazards and destruction that mining entails.</p>
<p>The title of the act also shows the anti-Indian root of the law: The lands in question do not belong to Arizona; they are Apache lands. Already, in the name of the law itself, we find levels of deception.</p>
<p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">We are familiar with the common political practice of concealing the true purpose of a law behind wonderful-sounding phrases: "conservation" instead of "destruction." We should also be familiar with the fact that federal Indian law presents a pro-Indian mask in front of an anti-Indian face: "trust responsibility" instead of "federal domination."</span></p>
<p>The Rio Tinto law—let's call it by its real name—starts with the following presumptive statement: "The purpose of this section is to authorize, direct, facilitate, and expedite the exchange of land between Resolution Copper and the United States."</p>
<p>But how does the United States claim ownership of the land?</p>
<p>The United States claims ownership of Apache ancestral lands the same way it claims ownership of all Indian lands: through the doctrine of "Christian Discovery" set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court. "Christian Discovery" doctrine states that the United States holds title to all Indian lands. The doctrine further states that Indians are only "occupants" on their lands and that they do not hold their "occupancy" by right, but only by "the grace of the sovereign."</p>
<p>The Supreme Court based its "Christian Discovery" ruling on religious concepts dating from the time of Christendom. The court held that 15<sup>th</sup> century Papal Bulls authorizing Spanish and Portuguese colonial exploitation and domination of the "New World" also provided authority for English colonization. The court concluded that this religious authority to dominate and colonize "heathens and pagans" extended to the U.S. government after the American Revolution.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court has repeatedly reaffirmed the principle of "Christian Discovery." The court still cites the original 1823 case, <em>Johnson v. McIntosh</em>, as valid law. In fact, U.S. courts at all levels have cited the <em>Johnson</em> ruling more than 300 times since 1823, including at least four times in 2014.</p>
<p>In 1955, the U.S. argued explicitly in favor of "Christian Discovery" in the case of <em>Tee-Hit-Ton v. U.S.</em>, resulting in a Supreme Court decision that the United States could take Indian property without compensation because Indians don't own their lands.</p>
<p>The San Carlos Apache are up against the federal Indian law framework that <em>Johnson</em> and <em>Tee-Hit-Ton</em> established: the principle of religious domination inherent in federal Indian law. The Rio Tinto act presumes that Apache lands are owned by the United States because that's what federal Indian law says!</p>
<p>The Rio Tinto act contains a subsection entitled "Consultation with Indian Tribes." It says, "The Secretary shall engage in government-to-government consultation with affected Indian tribes concerning issues of concern to the affected Indian tribes related to the land exchange." (The act defines "Secretary" as "the Secretary of Agriculture." We are expected to believe that the Rio Tinto project has something to do with food. Another deception.)</p>
<p>The "consultation" indicated in the act focuses <em>after the fact </em>of the exchange, not before. In contrast, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specifically mandates "prior consent." Article 19 of the UN Declaration says: "States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them."</p>
<p>Article 32 of the UN Declaration reinforces the principle of "prior consent" with the following two further mandates: "1) Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources, and 2) States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources."</p>
<p>The Rio Tinto act fails completely to meet or acknowledge the rights of the San Carlos Apache under the United Nations declaration. The fact that the act uses the phrase "government-to-government consultation" does not mean that the act actually recognizes and protects the indigenous government of the San Carlos Apache. That phrase is just another layer of deception, a mask and window dressing for a unilateral move by the United States.</p>
<p>To make matters worse, the act says that any responses to Indian "concerns" and any steps taken to "minimize the adverse effects" on them shall be "mutually acceptable" to Rio Tinto!</p>
<p>The fact is that the United States has refused to accede to the international legal norms announced in the United Nations declaration. Although President Obama reversed the original “no” vote by the United States when the United Nations adopted the declaration, he did so with a statement that "the Declaration’s concept of self-determination is consistent with the United States’ existing recognition of, and relationship with, federally recognized tribes."</p>
<p>In other words, the United States takes the position that federal Indian law already embodies the principles and mandates of the U.N. declaration. As we see in the Rio Tinto act, however, federal Indian law bears little resemblance to the norms of self-determination under international law. In short, the Obama statement, while attached to a yes vote, really amounts to a continuing no vote.</p>
<p>The bottom line here is that the San Carlos Apache do have a battle on their hands—a serious and profound battle against entrenched forces of colonial domination that have a 500-year head start. All Indian nations should take note of Chairman Rambler's challenge: "We must stand together and fight those…that seek to take our religious freedom, our most human right…."</p>
<p><em>Peter d’Errico graduated from Yale Law School in 1968. He was Staff attorney in Dinebeiina Nahiilna Be Agaditahe Navajo Legal Services, 1968-1970, in Shiprock. He taught Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1970-2002. He is a consulting attorney on indigenous issues.</em></p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Land grabs are as common today as they were during the colonial era, say the Apache and other Indigenous Peoples in this video of the February 7, 2014 daylong protest of potential copper mining on the sacred site.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:30:00 +0000theresa159152 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/02/12/video-oak-flat-protesters-talk-about-land-grabs-and-copper-mining-159152#comments57 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Urge Senate to Nix Sacred Land Giveawayhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/12/57-affiliated-tribes-northwest-indians-urge-senate-nix-sacred-land-giveaway-158266
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>More than 70 tribal nations have urged the U.S.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:41:11 +0000kpolisse158266 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/12/57-affiliated-tribes-northwest-indians-urge-senate-nix-sacred-land-giveaway-158266#commentsGreat Plains Tribal Leaders' Letter Asks Congress to Strike Land Swap From Defense Billhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/11/great-plains-tribal-leaders-letter-asks-congress-strike-land-swap-defense-bill-158238
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The 16-member Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association has written to members of Congress and the U.S.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:30:00 +0000theresa158238 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/11/great-plains-tribal-leaders-letter-asks-congress-strike-land-swap-defense-bill-158238#commentsVideo: What Resolution Copper Wants to Inflict on Apache Sacred Landhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/10/video-what-resolution-copper-wants-inflict-apache-sacred-land-158221
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The San Carlos Apache Tribe is battling to save a sacred site that has been federally protected from mining since 1955.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:30:00 +0000theresa158221 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/10/video-what-resolution-copper-wants-inflict-apache-sacred-land-158221#commentsSan Carlos Apache Would Get Biggest Shaft Ever in Copper Mine Land Swaphttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/10/san-carlos-apache-would-get-biggest-shaft-ever-copper-mine-land-swap-158215
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On November 19, Resolution Copper proudly announced it had completed shaft #10, which at a final depth of 6,943 feet is the deepest single-lift shaft mine in North America.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:15:00 +0000jrobertson158215 at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.comhttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/10/san-carlos-apache-would-get-biggest-shaft-ever-copper-mine-land-swap-158215#comments